Get 100 free Avios from Wanda travel insurance

Wanda is a new travel insurance brand launched by Avios. The USP is that it will refund your Avios if you need to cancel your trip, which is something people believe can be a struggle with standard travel insurers.

You will receive 100 Avios for signing up to Wanda’s email newsletter.

There are also bonuses for taking out a policy.

Before we get to the free 100 Avios, let’s look briefly at Wanda.

(I do think it’s quite cool that they use the wanda.world URL for their website, but perhaps that’s just me.)

Because we aren’t licensed to advise on insurance, there is a limit to what we can say about Wanda. However, you need to remember that an Avios flight can be cancelled up to 24 hours before departure for a full refund, less BA’s £35 per person cancellation fee.

This means that when it comes to ‘insuring your Avios in case of cancellation’, there isn’t actually much risk to insure!

Your Avios are only at risk and in need of insurance if you cancel in the small window between 24 hours before departure and the time your flight takes off.

The number of Avios covered by Wando is also capped:

• 75,000 Avios on a Basic policy
• 250,000 Avios on a Standard policy
• 500,000 Avios on a Premier policy

Wanda also covers you when you use Avios to pay for car rental, hotels or experiences with points. There may be some value here in a Wanda policy, but:

• HfP readers shouldn’t really be using their Avios at a poor rate to book car rental, hotels or experiences and

• I suspect most insurers would reimburse you based on the standard cash rate for a hotel or car hire even if you did use Avios

Earn Avios when you buy a Wanda policy

For single trip cover, you earn Avios at a generous rate of 20 Avios per £1 spent.

However, there’s a snag. You are capped at 1,000 Avios per policy, which is £50 of spending. It won’t be hard for a family looking for decent cover to exceed this.

For a multi-trip policy, you will receive a fixed bonus of 3,000 Avios.

It is obviously worth getting a quote from Wanda if you are looking for travel insurance, but don’t be won over by:

• earning Avios back – because you are capped at 1,000 Avios on a single trip policy and

• claims that only Wanda can protect your Avios, because in most cases you would be able to cancel your flight before departure regardless for a full Avios refund and, in the worse case scenario, another insurer may well cover you for the cash value of Avios used

If you have (successfully or not) claimed on your travel insurance for a product bought with Avios, please let us know in the comments.

Claim your 100 free Avios

Back to the headline of the article ….

Wanda is offering 100 Avios to everyone who signs up to its email list.

The offer is capped at 5,000 people and has been running since 15th May, so I don’t know how many of the 5,000 slots are left.

If you visit wanda.world and wait for 30 seconds or so, ou should get a box like this appearing:

Alternatively, just go here and enter your British Airways Club number. The Avios will post pretty much instantly.

BA accounts registered outside the UK or to people under 18 will not receive the Avios, according to the rules.

I am assuming that the offer will be removed when the 5,000 participants target is hit, but do be aware that HfP readers may send them past this figure today before they can take it down. If you don’t get your 100 Avios, don’t complain!